The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-04
PERSONAL.

]. RIDER HAGGARD is a young man. He will
be 81 on June %
LORD COLIN CAMPBELL is now bankrupt in
purse as well as reputation.
THE late Ben: Perley Poore is said to have
been paid $1,000 by the atlantic for articles on
Grant.
KAISER WILHELM paid $500 900 for the silesian
estate which be has just given to the Crown
Prince.
MAzzANTINI, the famous Cuban matador has
been seriously injured at a bull fight in Seville,
Spain,
Mr.. RICHARD GLIDER, editor of the Century.
win spend the greater part of the summer at
Marion, Mass
GEN. BERGENEr now quiet resident of New
York, was leader of the Commune in Paris
sixteen years ago.
JENNIE WADE, the only resident of Gettys-
burg killed during the battle, is to be honored
with monument.
I Mr.. ARLINGTON, owner of the Derby winner,
Merry Hampton, was Frustrated for day after
the race from over-excitement
A YOUNG MAN known as Jubilee Juggins is now
the heaviest ''plunger" on the English turf He
recently came into fortune OF $2,500,OO0 but
is going through it rapidly. He lost heavily on
the Derby.
Cot. JOSEPH NJ BENNETT Of PHILADELPHIA has
given in various forms 100000 TO the Methodist
church. He is not o Methodist, but his mother
was, and her dying request TO him was to do
some service to the church with his wealth.
BENJAMIN f. BUTLER has been giving advice
to the students of the Boston University Law
School One of the most characteristic of his
remarks ran as follows: MAKE a bargain about
your fees, and be sure to do this early and get
your pay early"
DIR. WARD, who is with the President in the
North Woods, Is handsome young physician of
Albany. He and Mr.. Cleveland became great
friends when the latter was Governor DR.
Ward is an accomplished artist with the fly and
is also fond of deer stalking.
Mrs. HOPKINS has endowed chair of Mental
and Moral Philosophy at Mills College, Califor.
MIA in honor Of Mark Hopkins the venerable
ex- President of Williams College The endow-
ment fund is $4,000 The Rev. Dr. Stratton.
the new President Of Mills College, will fill the
chair.
THE late Thomas Stevenson, the eminent
Scotch engineer, was the father of Mr.. Robert
Louis Stevenson, the popular writer He was
the author of many valuable Inventions par
ticularly relating to lighthouses, but as he was
engineer to the Lighthouse Commission he de-
clined all personal profit from them
e. P. MITCHELL, in a letter from Tunis to the
New York Sun, says: Probably no single In
dividual on earth, unless il be the estimable Mr..
ChDds, of Philadelphia, owns more numerous
or various collection OF timepieces Than sthat
which the late Mohammed ESsadok Bey eath
cred about him during the twentr-thrce z'enrs
OF bis reign In Tunis." H&MM6t
SENATOR STEWART Of Nevada, says that in
stead Of cutting of the railroad passes Of fera-
tors and Representatives. as has been dsae by
the interstate commerce law, be would give
them all passes and compel each man 10 travel
az least 5000 miles year, in ordor to have them
learn something about all parts er abe country
for which they have to legisiate. atf A4s#
john Roach possessed genuine Irish wit
When he came TO this country he WAS only is
years old. Some time after his arrival he met
one OF his father's most intimate friends. who
asked him how he was getting along fieffing
along foinc said he sSmlre. when / lfsn, 10 4
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